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Greek word

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PHARMAKON - drug or medicine, spell, remedy, or poison

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Egyptian term

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PHARMAKI - “bestower of security”

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Thoth

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Patron of physicians

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It is a profession concerned with ART and SCIENCE of preparing drugs.

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Pharmacy

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Two sources of Drugs:

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Natural (nature) and Synthetic (chemical which made to be a drug)

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Compounding

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Combining, mixing, ingredients to create a drug

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Dispensing

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Giving required medicine through the prescription to the right patient

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Establishment or place where drugs or medicines are sold.

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Pharmacy

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Process in Pharmacy:

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Collection, identification, purification, isolation, synthesis, standardization, and quality control

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Expert on drugs

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Pharmacist

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A chemical compound that may be used on or administered to human or animals as an aid in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of diseases or other abnormal conditions, to relieve pain or suffering or to control or improve any physiological or pathologic condition.

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Drugs

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A period where people sought healing from religion.

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Pre-historic Pharmacy

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Shamans

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Faith healers

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Sushruta Samhita

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Earliest known compilation of medicinal substances

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Jewel of the ancient Mesopotamia

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Babylon

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2 types of Medical Practitioner

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Asipu - magical healer
Asu - empirical healer

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Asipu

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Spells and magical stones rather tan from plant materials

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Asu

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Large collection of drugs and develop them into several dosage forms

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19
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Provides the oldest pharmaceutical record

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Babylon

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Oldest prescription

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Sumerian Mud Tablet

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Father of medicine

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Hippocrates

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Four founders of Chinese Medicine

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Shen Nung
Fu Hsi/ Hua To
Huang Tsi/ Chang Chung Ching
Pien Chiao

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wrote the first Pen-Tsao (native herbal) consisting of 365 different drugs

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Shen Nung

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Developed the use of anesthesia

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Fu Shi/ Hua To

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Acupunctue Hydrotherapy
Fu Shi/ Hua To
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Hippocrates of China
HUANG TSI/CHANG CHUNG CHING
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Hippocrates of China
HUANG TSI/CHANG CHUNG CHING
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HUANG TSI/CHANG CHUNG CHING wrote about ___ listing of drugs, ___ ways on how to correct diseases, ___ prescription
222, 397, 113
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legendary Chinese internist and surgeon who reportedly used general anesthesia for surgical procedures
Pien Chiao
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Who si “Lu” and “Chao”?
Pien Chiao gave them a toxic drink which rendered them unconscious for three days, during which time he performed a gastrostomy upon them.
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Who discovered Papyrus Ebers?
George Ebers in a tomb
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Collection of 800 prescriptions, mentioning 700 drugs.
Papyrus Ebers
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A mixture of herbs heated on a brick so that the sufferer could inhale their fumes. What remedy is this for?
Asthma
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Father of Botany
THEOPHRASTUS
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The Royal Toxicologist
MITHRIDATES VI
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“Mithridatic” or “Mithridate” means?
Antidote or protective mixture
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Means sealed eath
TERRA SIGILLATA
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1st to deal with botany as an applied science of pharmacy
Dioscorides
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He practiced and taught both Pharmacy and Medicine in Rome.
GALEN: THE DRUG COMPOUNDER
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a class of pharmaceuticals compounded by mechanical means
Galenicals
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Formula for cold cream
Galen cerates
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What is a polypharmaceutical preparation?
Shotgun prescription
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What is a shotgun prescription?
prescription containing many ingredients
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Founder of chemotherapy and used sulfur, mercury, lead antimony, iron and other metals to therapeutics.
Paracelsus
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Paracelsus full name
Aureolus Philippus Theoprastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
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“All substances are poisons; there is none that is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.”
Paracelsus
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The patron saints of Pharmacy
Damian Cosmas
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Damian is the
Apothecary
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Cosmas is the
Physician
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Official symbol of medicine
Staff entwined by a serpent
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At the touch of his hand or staff or of the tongue of his sacred serpent, a miraculous thing happened to the afflicted.
ASKLEPIOS & HYGEIA
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The staff is that of Mercury (Roman) or Hermes (Greek), the messenger of the gods and also the god of commerce
Caduceus
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The Greek root of the Word Caduceus means
“herald’s wand”
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Daughter of Asklepios
Hygeia
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Official symbol of Pharmacy
Bowl of Hygeia
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First privately owned drugstores was established.
Baghdad (8th Century)
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Magna Carta of Pharmacy
FREDERICK II
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first official Pharmacopeia
NUOVO RECEPTARIO
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First organization of Pharmacists in the Anglo-Saxon world.
Master, Wardens and Society of the Art and Mystery of the Apothecaries of the City of London
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Hispharmaceutical enterprise became the leading retail store, center of large scale chemical manufacturing, and training school for pharmacists.
CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL
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first hospital pharmacist
Jonathan Roberts
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Prescribe and diagnose disease
Physicia
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Dispense drugs or medication
CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL
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rationalized the total separation of the two profession
John Morgan
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MORPHINE and prove the importance of alkaloids.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM SERTUNER
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1818- isolated STRYCHNINE and BRUCINE from nux vomica
CAVENTOU & PELLETIER
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February 23, 1821
pharmacist of Philadelphia had their emotional protest in the Carpenter’s Hall due to the discrimination of the medical faculty
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March 13, 1821
pharmacist voted to established an association which became the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
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first Pharmaceutical President
Daniel B. Smith
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first Secretary
William Procter, Jr.
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Father of American Pharmacy
William Procter, Jr.
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he removed the traditional reqts.,the (internship) before graduation
Dr. Albert B. Prescott
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medicine dropper
Stanislas Limousin (1831-1887)
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Publicized the effectiveness of diphtheria antitoxin
Behring & Roux (1894)
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Studied bismuth & arsenic compounds in treating syphilis
Ernest Francois Auguste Fourneau
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Huang Tso/Chang Chung Ching wrote about ___ drugs, ___ ways, and ___ prescription
222 397 113

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